The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-10-23
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Tho Lick Observatory stands on top OF
Mount Hamilton which p more than 1000 f s
high. and IL one Of the highest morntsins co
ei IeE XII isfs % make The Sisssst ssls:
scope In tho world and TO create . complete ob.
could Be- iperceived whatever was taxing place
IA the moon or sun or heavens Is. A road an mas
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they are ess %ss IT tSa
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i or on one to 20 to that observatory and back
again, and the ascent is necessarily alow. The
glass In this telescope cost something Ike no..
mirror OF In he world AZ tho height s 81 tie OBJ
eervatory. In place made IN the granite. Mr..
LIZ g r. sp pps s cSSianston to have located
this obseryatory In the Vicinity Of 20 many cd
Ian 9a. Ia. Ths s e ss wp ss
and o. Santa Clsrn. which p only three miles
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els Sse only osteen mes from San sa Jos
Menlo Park. whore the Palo Alto, or Stanford
University, IL going, up with q vigor delightful
the iii immense foundations Of this structare.
With its founder, that perhaps was as near to
been In my life. though have been thirty
%sPssi l ike wars aud temples and dynassiss
Surely no college Of modern times %, eye, eyer
Harvard and p Yale 1ers little gifts Of lew
pounds or q few books. and the element OF
time has brought them out through nor more IMAM
ford's giit ia said in round numbers to amount
70 zo5O00oo Of which not less than "a q GOO 600
to be almost within tho grasp q bis own gen;
Grafton He has given to 1t ss 600 aerss 81 iab ba
There are about $500 acres right around the
Che Governors great vineyard, where there IRE
nearly 1000 acres OF bearing vines. In another
vnsa ss xoq
iofty acres from which IL me doyernor has re:
alone. and never less than So. 200
Much Of the land within few miles Of this
true that ali such lands are covered with
only from three years old to twelve years od;
aeres over which there is Q lawsuit between
two fruit pickers, ono Of whom pave $4,000 q
Oin ss hs 81 na ss osh shc
fruit to pick. has brought tho suit.
.h 70 &c
were not for The fact that the building which I
tory q college building. The house now going
cnpied next year at the time the son Of Mr..
YOU'D have 6een IN his ss
the inside q this square is 100 feet
block Of this Stanford University. III
sos mulch s
Ing It up, would arrest their wisdom BY the
story high. and IS conceived in breadth, but
not In loftiness. and with due reference to the
dred years hence than to the present day.
and lay his ashes IN this Institution has been
been perhaps the most modest man IN CaiIfor-
A ss od New ssd
New iork stock; ne has refardsd tns zig mis-.
with a practical eye. and they were recon- m.
mended to him for their. GOODNESS, their stabil-
ity against storms and earthquakes, and. on
nance. with a landscape which often reveals to
the mind the similar structures Of the SPANISH
Mr.. Standards design is Of a series Of long.
low halls connected with each other BY arrhf-
teetural curtains; and on the court side or
stons. somewhat like the Old cloisters Of the
monks. while on the back or external side the
from from, the south and west. In tile centre 81 the
sSy ss s.ss 4 III a SdasS til ds.5s
cloistsr have spoken, Of is cont lnued right be-
In front OF this church and its cl lobster.
The architecture is quite spanish In its char
t1rs estate which was BY vi the iate IT.
Richardson OF Boston. who, made more repu.
on than any ether archtss ths HRsd
ss s. ill., fFsd Isl yIax
tate, which is some three to Ave miles
long and two or three miles wide. and
ish and Of n yBs
ssSS i s VIM i5spI s. t5s sGsss
peaks Of tho Coast Range. which are from
Twenty-Five hundred to forty. hundred feet
though he cannot see them. the great Sic Sierra
Nevadas o hundred miles beyond. which per-
haps give the hydraulic pressure 70 infinite ar
1hs sn!s
fs would shoW %posinsy to the IN @
country for miles and miles, but considering
that ILLS building was TO DO used by living
beings and that their footsteps had to be
counted among their tolls he concluded to set
1t be used for pleasure and for profit.
! was driven up on those hills. and took In o
scene. the like Of which could not be found In
the United States for extent, warm tints, mix
ture OF bay and mountains. vineyard and pas
turage. plains. cafons upon Gallons, SUBMITS
While we have many beautiful scenes in the
East. they carry O. great tone In them all
rather stern and fierce. like the Indians who
| California, something between the landscape
Of Seville In Spain and Montepulciano In Italy
is beheld. with suggestions Of the Bay Of
Naples. The climate Iarrles in the vicinity q
but accompanied with cool zeIhyrs, and rarely
at the number OF men l saw throughout oil
this country WHO had come from the East ap-
parently to do Most OF them are now tho most
energetic business men inthis country.
is being built, It is yellowish-white sand
stone. brought from quarrios at no great dis
lance by temporary railroad. 1t is laid In
Portland cement. To lay this huge stone Mr.
Stanford almost exhausted the supply In San
loud call for cement for general use. and yes-
sells are Fastening on the way with 1t. Tho